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As a product of American education, I had never paid the slightest attention to the green banana, except to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet come. Suddenly, on that mountain road, its time had come to meet my need. But as I reflected on it further, I realized that the green banana had been there all along. Its time reached back to the very origins of the banana. The people in that village had known about it for years. It was my own time that had not come, all in relation to it. I came to appreciate the special genius of those people, and the special potential of the green banana. I had been wondering for some time about what educators like to call "learning moments", and I now knew I had just experienced two of them at once.
作為美國教育的產品，我除了把青香蕉當作還沒長熟的水果，從來就沒注意過它。但突然在那條山路上，當我需要時，它出現了?？墒亲屑毾胍幌耄鋵嵡嘞憬兑恢倍荚谀莾捍嬖谥?，甚至可以追溯到香蕉的起源。至于青香蕉的作用，村民也早就知道了，而我自己卻是在經歷了這件事以后才剛剛認識到的。我開始欣賞村民們的特殊天賦以及青香蕉的特殊潛能。曾有一段時間，我一直困惑于教育家們所謂的“頓悟”，而現在我知道自己剛剛同時經歷了兩個這樣的時刻。
It took me a little longer to fully grasp the importance of the rock which the villagers believed marked the center of the world. I had at first doubted their claim, as I knew for a fact that the center was located somewhere else in New England. After all, my grandfather had come from there. But gradually I realized the village people had a very reasonable belief and I agreed with them.
又過了一段時間，我才真正明白了村民們認為標志著世界中心的那塊巖石的重要性。開始時我懷疑他們的說法，因為我知道實際上世界的中心是位于新英格蘭的某個地方，畢竟，我的祖父就是那兒的人。但我逐漸意識到他們的想法是很有道理的，我贊同他們的看法。
